Amputation ''About seven years ago, I fell on the handle of a carved door and was injured. I had a large hematoma on my hand, which was soon absorbed. Time to time the post-traumatic pain returned, though it didn’t bother me much, and moreover, as the
People said I was a musically gifted kid from the beginning. I also remember that when I sang in kindergarten, I never liked accompaniment. That’s because it seems that nature gifted me so much that even at the age of 3, I could understand when
‘’When I was entering tenth grade, I fell off a tree. I underwent wrong surgery in Tbilisi and then I had to spend two years in a rehabilitation center in Yerevan. When I came back, I could almost walk, but I was falling down often.
"I’m a woman from Svaneti, where I’ve spent half a century. Although I had multiple opportunities to live in better conditions, in a big city, I couldn’t give up this place. I’m a woman deeply in love with mountains and my strength and character helps
‘’I finished school here in Tsereteli. Unlike today, back then Azerbaijani children weren’t admitted to Georgian schools. Therefore, the first time I had contact with an ethnic minority was in the Takalo village, where I taught the Georgian language for 4 years at an Azerbaijani
‘’I was born and raised in Tbilisi. I was the only child in my family and my parents struggled to raise me. We recently paid back all of our bank obligations and private loans, which we had to take to ensure I had access to
‘’My father was arrested on August 8th in 1937, a few days earlier before I was born. He was a Social Democrat and had already been arrested once in 1926, spending 6 years in Tashkent prison. In 1937, he was arrested again as a former
My mother is an Ossetian raised in Georgia, but I always said that I was born in Georgian and Tskhinvali is Georgia. My mother died when giving birth to me and I grew up without her. I was a really beautiful girl, I sang well and
How I became an activist ‘’I call myself a civil activist, but there was a time when I didn’t even know what gender meant and I thought early marriage was a normal thing to do. In 2003, my 15-year-old sister got married and I wasn't bothered